All About Foamiran Topiary

The interiors of apartments and houses are often decorated with a topiary - a tree of happiness created by one’s own hands. Many ways of creating and decorating it were invented in recent years with the advent of new modern materials for crafts. One of these materials is foamiran. Topiari from foamiran - bright, original art objects. This material allows the needlewoman to realize creative fantasies and test her abilities.

Foamiran has several names. It is also called plastic suede, foamed rubber. Initially, foam was produced in Iran, therefore the word “Iran” was added to the word “foam” - this is how “foamiran” turned out. Foamed rubber is also produced in other countries, but the Iranian foam is appreciated more among the craftswomen. Features of creating a topiary from foamiran are the properties of this material:

• pleasant velvety;
• elasticity when heated;
• water resistant during operation;
• the porous structure allows you to paint it with paints;
• easily glued;
• retains shape after processing.

The main method in the work is shaping the heated element of a flower from foamiran, which, like plasticine, takes the form that the craftswoman molds with her fingers. Therefore, foamiran is used in many types of needlework: in scrapbooking, floristry, creating jewelry and jewelry.

The industry produces plastic suede in different ways. This is a glitter foam - one side of the sheet is covered with sparkles. Delicate marshmallow foam has a thickness of 0.5-0.8 mm.

A variety of bright colors is used in the creation of foamiran roses, which decorate the topiary. Fans of other flowers will easily make them from a suitable color sheet.

For example, pink and white produce delicate rose hips. The inner petal of the flower is dark, each subsequent row of petals is lighter. The last petals are completely white.

From yellow, green and black material create a sunflower. For autumn flowers, there is also a foamiran of a suitable color.

Crown topiary is made in various forms. For example, the Christmas tree crafts made of bright green foam are a great New Year gift.

Topiary in the form of pink sakura will appeal to lovers of oriental interiors. Small flowers of Japanese cherry decorate the crown of a tree made of natural materials.

Popularly tree of happiness with a crown in the form of a heart. It is a pleasure to receive a heart decorated with roses as a gift for a birthday or Valentine's Day. A wedding celebration will also decorate this tree of happiness.

Flowers from foamiran organically combine with such material as sisal. They decorate the top of the pot or pots. A matching sisal is laid out at the base of the tree trunk.

Topiary can be made literally from improvised means. Experienced craftswomen do this. But for the topiary of foamiran materials and tools will need a little more. Need to cook:

• the basis for the crown is a foam ball of the desired diameter;
• tree trunk;
• flowers from foamiran;
• capacity in the form of a pot or a cache-pot;
• paint for the ball and pastel for flowers;
• gypsum or alabaster for fixing the trunk;
• decorative elements for decoration.

Foam balls with a diameter of 3 to 15 cm are bought in needlework stores. If this is not possible, a ball is made with their own hands from a lump of newspaper. To give a round shape, they are wrapped with threads or decorated in another way available to the needlewoman.

The diameter of the ball and the diameter of the pot should be the same. Sometimes the pot may be smaller. If the barrel height is 25-30 cm, a ball is needed with a diameter of 12 cm.

The trunk is straight or curved in the form of a branch. It is coated with paint and fixed with polish for shine.

Making a topiary with your own hands is not a very difficult task. The main difficulty lies in creating flowers from foamiran to decorate the foundations of the crown of a tree of happiness.

Before starting work, choose a foamiran that will match the type of flower. A foam with a thickness of 2 mm is suitable for making a flower if heat treatment is not used during operation. Petals of flowers are cut out of a brilliant, glitter foam. This method of making flowers is suitable for beginner needlewomen.

To create flowers and roses using heating, you need the following tools:

• foamiran 0.5-1.0 mm thick;
• scissors for creativity;
• adhesive thermal gun;
• an iron or other heating device;
• embossing molds;
• wooden sticks or toothpicks;
• the basis of the bud for roses;
• thin wire.

If you plan to decorate the tree of happiness with roses, then you need to follow the step-by-step instructions for creating a rose. Here is a master class on creating roses from foamiran.

1. Create a template by which rose petals and leaves will be cut. The size of the template will depend on the selected flower size. If the diameter of the rose is 9 cm, cut three squares with a side size of 3.3 for the petal pattern; 3.7; 4.5 cm. Using scissors, give them the shape of a petal. A sepal pattern is cut out from a circle with a diameter of 9.5 cm in the shape of a five-pointed star
2. Using templates, cut petals from foamiran. To do this, attach the template to the material and circle around with a stick or a toothpick. For the first row, cut 7 petals of 3.3 cm. For the second, 10 petals of 3.7 cm in height. The third row will consist of 15 petals of 4.5 cm each. Petals can be of a different size.It depends on the size of the rose. It is important that each successive row is larger than the previous one.
3. the bud again, on which the petals will be pasted, is made with your own hands, twisting the foil tightly with a ball and giving it an elongated cone shape. Or buy in a handicraft store ready-made basics of buds on wire. When sticking the petals on the base, it is convenient to hold it by the wire.
4. Using a sponge, apply pastel on the tips of the petals.
5. To give the workpiece a natural shape of the petal, slightly heat it on the iron. To prevent the petal from sticking to the iron, set the heating mode for silk and wool. Squeeze the heated lower edge of the petal with your fingers, you get a natural fold. Tighten the upper heated part slightly, and the workpiece will take the form of a rose petal. In this way, all the petals are cooked.
6. Stick prepared petals around the base with hot glue. The first row is small petals. Then, in the intervals between the pasted petals of the first row, a second row of larger petals is pasted on top. Then the third row of the largest petals. At the same time, each row, when glued by 1 mm, shifts up.
7. When the rows of rose petals are pasted, flatten the bottom of the flower so that it is easier to stick the flower on the topiary base. To do this, cut the bottom of the bud with scissors, giving it the appearance of a platform.
8. After this, a sepal, which has undergone heat treatment on an iron, is glued from below.
9. Rose leaves are created using mold. Molds are sold for leaves and petals of various colors. To make a rose leaf, cut the blank according to the template and heat. Attach to mold - and all veins and bends of the leaf are printed on the blank. At the edges of the leaf with scissors make embossed incisions. Glue the finished sheet from the bottom to the sepals of the rose.

Beginner needlewomen make flowers from foamiran easier to make. Bright yellow dandelions with green leaves look spectacular on the crown of the topiary. To create a dandelion, templates for petals are not created, but only a template for sepals and leaflets.

To make flowers, two yellow strips of foamiran are cut 2 cm high and 20 cm and 15 cm long. Each strip is incised along the long side in the form of cilia. Leave 5 mm uncut at the end of the workpiece. Heat the workpiece and wind it with a spiral onto the tip of the wire starting from the uncut end, while treating with glue. With each turn, shift the edge of the strip upwards not 1 mm. It turns out a dandelion flower. Shred with a hand and glue the prepared sepals below.

In the same way, the core of the sunflower is made. For this, a black foamiran is used. Make yellow-orange petals using a pattern. After heating, give the petal a natural shape, crushing and stretching it with your hands.

When the elements of the topiary are prepared from foamiran, you need to carefully and sequentially make the craft.

1. First, connect the prepared crown with the trunk of a tree of happiness. To do this, make a hole in the ball with a sharp tool and insert the barrel blank there. Fix with glue for reliability.
2. Attach the other end of the barrel to the bottom of the pot, glue. A reliable method is to fill the pot with a solution of gypsum or alabaster and wait until it hardens.
3. When the trunk with the crown is fixed, we decorate the trunk. One option is to wrap it with a green or brown floral ribbon. Or decorate with satin ribbon. Can be painted with acrylic paint.
4. After that, stick the prepared flowers onto the crown ball using a thermo-gun. So that there is no gap between the flowers, decorate the spaces with organza or satin ribbons. Some needlewomen paint the ball in green or any other color so that white spaces between the flowers are not visible.
5. Make a pot using sisal.To do this, glue sisal at the base of the trunk and decorate with small flowers. Decorate the topiary with beads, beads, and other decorative elements. Decor depends on the imagination of the needlewoman. A brutal option is to wrap the pot with burlap and secure with jute thread, decorate the crown with figures of birds and insects.

With each new craft, the craftswomen improve their skill in making topiary from foamiran, new ideas appear.

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